Munitions for me, but not for thee. Credit: Getty

07/15/2023 - 9:00am

Has the UK really ruled out cluster munitions? A directive reveals just how partial and incomplete the supposed ban is

Friday, July 14

Germany cuts long Covid and vaccine injury fund Health Minister Karl Lauterbach's decision has met with anger

Arlene Foster: I regret not bringing down UK government over Brexit deal The former Northern Ireland first minister spoke to UnHerd

TikTok’s weird new trend: humans pretending to be robots Creators have tapped into a market for 'non-playable characters'

Kristina Murkett

Is El Salvador the safest country in Latin America? President Nayib Bukele made the claim on Twitter this week

Thursday, July 13

Michael Gove: we asked the ‘daft laddie’ questions over Covid The senior Tory told the pandemic inquiry that politicians are amateurs

Off-duty police officers targeted in French riots A disturbing development is emerging in the country's quiet suburbs

Erdogan’s EU bid is not what it seems He knows the bloc won't embrace Turkey as a member

For Europe’s future defence, look to the ‘quad’ France, Britain, Poland and Ukraine are serious about security

Blue states are learning the wrong lessons from Portugal Drug policy involves more than just decriminalisation

Charles Fain Lehman

Wednesday, July 12

The ‘black manosphere’ got there long before Andrew Tate Today's influencers weren't the first to warn about the masculinity crisis

Prof Ashok Swain: the strange disappearance of the anti-war movement The academic talks Nato, cluster bombs and escalation in Ukraine

Nato offers Ukraine the worst of all worlds Half a promise is worse than no promise at all

Nancy Kelley leaves Stonewall in a mess The outgoing charity boss dragged a once-great organisation down a rabbit hole

Josephine Bartosch

As trust in the US falls, countries want their gold back The seizure of Russia's foreign reserves marked the end of fair-play capitalism

Philip Cunliffe

Tuesday, July 11

Blame cancel culture for declining trust in universities New polling shows just how far public confidence has plummeted

Being fit is far-Right now, apparently A series of articles equate healthy living with fascism

In defence of Twitter anons There may be downsides, but anonymity has given social media its energy

Gender surgeon promotes bizarre range of ‘nonbinary surgeries’ Blair Peters's field has strayed from the core tenets of medical care

Eliza Mondegreen

Monday, July 10

Bank of England: digital currency will be a ‘step forward’ But Governor Andrew Bailey had a caveat

Jonah Hill has become a victim of his own therapy The actor cloaked coercive demands to his ex with the language of self-care

Kristina Murkett

Farewell Mark Rutte, Europe’s last centrist dad The Dutch PM's brand of modern, moderate conservatism is no more

It’s too late for Joe Biden to make friends with China The President has spent too long ostracising Xi Jinping

Philip Pilkington

Calls for violence in the trans debate only come from one side An activist advocated punching feminists at a rally this weekend

The promise of Nato membership won’t help Ukraine Expect vague rhetoric as leaders gather in Vilnius this week

William Nattrass

Friday, July 7

Starmer on education: a mashup of Blair and Alain de Botton The Labour leader's big speech was wordy and short on substance

As Ukraine’s counteroffensive falters, the blame game begins Volodymyr Zelenskyy has criticised allies for delaying arms shipments

William Nattrass

Germany ‘needs 1.5 million new immigrants per year’ Olaf Scholz claims only new arrivals can save the country's pension system

Ralph Schoellhammer

Rishi Sunak will survive the ‘mini-general election’ But three by-elections later this month will be brutal for the Tories

France’s riots are following the George Floyd playbook Protesters have targeted elite gentrified areas

Thursday, July 6

The shadow of Pax Romana The fragility of the greatest empire haunts us

The Russian economy is outperforming Germany’s Sanctions have been proved dramatically ineffective

Wolfgang Munchau